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Dec 22, 2025
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas, With our Most Sincere Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas and all through the cellar
Were stowed bottles of vino and this lucky feller.
Since I was a guest, I should’ve...
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Dec 9, 2025
Quiet Miracles, Local Filmmakers Bring Humanity Into Focus
North Bay filmmakers Vince and Alia Beeton have been quietly making some of the most affecting work in their field—quietly, that is, until the...
Dec 2, 2025
Healing Music: Ivan Neville Brings New Orleans to the North Bay
By the time Ivan Neville rolls into Sebastopol on Dec. 7, then glides over the hill into Mill Valley on Dec. 8, the man...
Nov 18, 2025
Sublime Mediocrity: Art is Where Ambition and Limitation Often Meet
Some artists carry the cultural burden of their genius and mounting legacy. Ahem—not I.
Having run through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ first four stages of grief as...
Nov 11, 2025
Pouring Stories, Writer Jeff Burkhart Raises the Bar on Stage
Jeff Burkhart has long been a fixture of Marin nightlife, both behind the bar and the byline.
As the “Barfly” columnist for the Marin Independent...
Nov 4, 2025
Fleet Street Blues, The Media Has Always Mutated
A couple of weeks ago, I was knocking around London’s Fleet Street, where newspapers once spored like mushrooms. Now, there’s barely a handful left.
The...
Oct 14, 2025
Harmony and Heart with Essence & Gold Country at Sweetwater
As singer-songwriter Essence Goldman takes the stage at Sweetwater Music Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 22, she won’t just be performing songs from her new...
Oct 1, 2025
When Peace Crashed
Peace came dressed like a census taker
clipboard in hand, mild mannered
asking who still lives here
and in what condition.
It smelled of sunscreen and burnt coffee
and...